Description is available under license CC-BY-SA IGO 3.0 De historische dorpen Shirakawa-go en Gokayama liggen in een bergachtig gebied dat lange tijd was afgesneden van de rest van de wereld. De ...

Located in a mountainous region that was cut off from the rest of the world for a long period of time, these villages with their Gassho-style houses subsisted on the cultivation of mulberry trees and ...

The villages were designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995. Shirakawa-gō and Gokayama are known for their traditional gasshō-zukuri farmhouses, which have steep thatched roofs that ...

Located in the mountains of Gifu Prefecture, Shirakawa-go is a village full of old-fashioned houses with thatched roofs - and a registered World Heritage Site. The roofs are steeply slanted ...

SHIRAKAWA, Gifu Prefecture--Villagers in this renowned UNESCO World Heritage site came ... this was the first re-thatching in Shirakawa-go in five years. Work on May 13 involved climbing the ...

Shirakawa-go in Gifu Prefecture is one of Japan's snowiest regions. It's famous for its traditional thatched-roof Gassho-style homes. The triangular roofs distribute the weight of heavy snow ...

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